Chief executive Paul Farmer said: «The government has proposed to sanction anyone turning down «
reasonable offers of employment», but people should not be forced to accept work that risks damaging their mental health, putting them back on benefits and back at square one.
Not exact matches
Given the absence
of a public trading market
of our common stock, and in accordance with the American Institute
of Certified Public Accountants Accounting and Valuation Guide, Valuation
of Privately - Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board
of directors exercised
reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate
of fair value
of our common stock, including independent third - party valuations
of our common stock; the prices at which we sold shares
of our convertible preferred stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges
of our convertible preferred stock relative to those
of our common stock; our operating results, financial position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack
of marketability
of our common stock; the hiring
of key personnel and the experience
of our management; the introduction
of new products; our stage
of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood
of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public
offering or a sale
of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history
of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product,
employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic outlook.
Teacher Diversity Efforts in Boston Michelle Healy Boston Public Schools identifies and
offers «letters
of reasonable assurance»
of future
employment to promising black applicants and students about to graduate from a teachers college.
As always, when dismissing an employee on a «without cause «basis, if you want to avoid a long and expensive court process,
offer a
reasonable notice period which properly reflects the character
of employment, length
of service, age
of the employee and availability
of other similar
employment.
Where an employer finds that he or she can not make
reasonable accommodation in order to
offer an
employment opportunity to a person on the basis
of that person's religion the employer shall, before he or she refuses such
employment opportunity based on a bona fide occupational requirement, support his or her findings based on evidence that to make an accommodation would impose an undue hardship involving either financial cost or business inconvenience to the employer.
This includes instances
of making
offers of employment, and notifying successful candidates
of their policies for providing
reasonable accommodations to employees disabled by barriers.
This requirement only exists if the temporary re-
employment offered is similar to the employee's former role
of employment and if a
reasonable person in the employee's situation would likely accept the
employment.
Thus, although an objective standard must be used to evaluate whether a
reasonable person in the employee's position would have accepted the employer's
offer (Reibl v. Hughes, [1980] 2 S.C.R. 880), it is extremely important that the non-tangible elements
of the situation — including work atmosphere, stigma and loss
of dignity, as well as nature and conditions
of employment, the tangible elements — be included in the evaluation.
As to the cost
of retaining a lawyer to review a severance package and provide an opinion on whether the
offer is fair and
reasonable or not, the cost will vary on a number
of factors, including whether you signed an
employment agreement at the time you were initially hired or during
employment.
I am persuaded that Ms. Brake's decision to consider herself constructively dismissed notwithstanding the
offer of continued lesser
employment was objectively
reasonable.
What this means is that if the employee elects to refuse the purchaser's
offer, regardless
of how
reasonable the terms
of employment, then the vendor must either: (a) somehow continue the employee's
employment; or (b) provide the employee with, at the very least, her statutory termination pay and severance pay.
If you learn that the termination clause will not be enforced, you may decide to accept the
offer of employment containing the termination clause confident knowing that you will still be entitled to
reasonable notice
of dismissal;
Since the initial
Employment Offer did not expressly touch upon the issue
of reasonable notice for termination without cause, it was an implied term
of the contract that the plaintiff was entitled to the common law standard
of reasonable notice.
It is now common for employers to present
offers of employment that contain termination clauses that remove the employees» right to
reasonable notice
of dismissal.
The 2015 Quebec Court
of Appeal decision [2015 QCCA 1048] held that, while Quebec's Act respecting Industrial Accidents and Occupational Diseases placed no obligation on employers to
offer suitable
employment to a worker who has suffered a work - related injury, when an employee exercises their right to return to work the employer must engage in a process
of reasonable accommodation in accordance with the Charter
of Human Rights and Freedoms.
An employee whose
employment is terminated after refusing an
offer of reasonable alternative
employment with the employer.
[55] Without fresh consideration, the
Employment Agreement could not displace the implied term
of reasonable notice contained in the
Offer Letter.
The Court
of Appeal found that an employer must seek suitable
employment for an employee returning to work from an injury,
offer reasonable accommodation to the employee to the point
of undue hardship, and conduct an assessment to ensure the accommodation complies with the provisions
of the Quebec Charter
of Human Rights and Freedoms.